Cathy Guisewite Quotes
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
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It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.
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India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
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Every tech product on the body like Jawbone or in the home like August is different. But there are definitely principles that apply across the board for me, such as integration in everyday life and discretion.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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I've sung other people's music all my life.
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'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies.
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Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.
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I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.
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My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
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It's the messiness of life that ultimately leads you to the most interesting things. Everyone asks what you would do over, and I don't know because then you have this story to tell, and if you did everything over and made it perfect, what would you talk about?
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I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.
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In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.
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It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.
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Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
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Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.
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Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables.
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Songwriters tell the truth.
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I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.
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The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.
